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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
you can be arrested if you give water to people waiting on line to vote
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I remember when Bill Clinton—a FORMER president—met Obama’s sitting AG on an airplane and it was a massive scandal. Now, here’s Trump’s new AG just doing Trump political rallies like it’s NBD.
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Ernest "Dead" Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026
the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1%
bluesky post by Politico saying "Progressives didn't get the big election night they wanted" referring to Abdul el-Sayed defeating Haley Stevens in the MI Senate primary and linking to their story with that headline.bluesky post by Politico with the text "The far left hits a wall" referring to David Crowley defeating Francesca Hong in the WI Governor Primary and linking to their story with that headline
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The ADL has a website dedicated to attacking Mamdani staffers—including my friend Waleed Shahid. The ADL is applying a level of scrutiny to him they aren’t applying to literal neo-Nazis working in the federal government. Waleed has a Jewish wife and child. The ADL is a disgrace.
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We expect the Mamdani administration to uphold a simple, non-negotiable standard: no one with a history of antisemitism or hostility toward Jews, Zionists, Israelis or Jewish institutions should be ap...
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
*Sometimes* that’s shared space with cars on traffic-calmed residential streets. *Sometimes* it’s shared space with pedestrians on suburban or rural trails. But much of the time it’s dedicated infrastructure for cyclists, separate from other modes.
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“Cyclists want to be treated like cars but …” Hold on buddy! The vast majority of cyclists do not want to be “treated like cars”. They want infrastructure and design that’s bike-friendly, and which recognizes how cyclists differ from both cars and pedestrians.
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Capital One Financial fights back over litigation tied "decision to close ‌the Trump Organization's bank accounts years ago, stating that it did so after a review by anti-money laundering experts...Marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns" to Trump family. Via Reuters
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Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe
The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
SNAP penalizes states for paying the wrong amount.⁣ ⁣ But they don't penalize states for wrongly denying an eligible family.⁣ ⁣ Once you understand this, it's easier to see why the program has shrunk faster than expected.⁣ ⁣ newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
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Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Landon Donovan spent his entire career fighting allegations that he was soft and branded himself in retirement as a major advocate for players' mental health and has also decided to go scorched earth calling Christian Pulisic a mentally weak loser
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/07/2026
The reason Platner has gotten roughly 10x the discussion of any of the panoply of rapists & sexual harassers in prominent positions on the right is that everyone - left, right, center, media, *everyone* - has internalized that conservatives just don't care and so there's no point talking about it.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I don't know, man, I think if Joe Biden had kept confusing Zelenskyy with Putin and Iran with Japan, the media might have made a pretty big deal about it?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/06/2026
New report finds that electrifying US industry could produce enormous GDP & job growth.
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Powering American Industry: The Economic Opportunity of Industrial Electrification - Renewable Thermal Collaborative
Industrial electrification represents a major opportunity to strengthen American manufacturing, support economic growth, and reduce manufacturers’ exposure to volatile fuel costs. A new report from th...
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dr peppermint patty @jessespector.com · 15/06/2026
CABO VERDE DEFEATS SPAIN 0-0
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Must feel so amazing right now to be a Vietnamese man in NYC named Nicks Nguyen and hearing the whole city chant your name
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Thank you, birthright citizenship, for that goal
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/06/2026
Platner: "Susan Collins has voted to send billions of our taxpayer dollars to fund other people's wars. How do you justify closing hospitals in Maine while using our tax dollars to destroy them halfway across the world? If you reflect Maine's values, why are you funding masked agents ... "
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 09/06/2026
grabbing every small business owner I can find by the shoulders and yelling directly into their faces that IF I DON'T HAVE AN INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT I CAN'T SEE ANY OF YOUR SHIT GET A FUCKING WEBSITE
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:
The months between signing and ratification were a busy period for the country. The proceedings of the Constitutional Convention had been kept secret, so each state needed to inform its voters of what exactly the proposed new government contained. Congress therefore directed the state legislatures to call ratification conventions in each state, with delegates specifically elected to approve or disapprove the new government.

However, this meant that each state from New Hampshire to Georgia had to receive a copy of the text, submit it to public debate, elect delegates, meet, vote, and return the results to Philadelphia. In an era where the speed of travel was limited by horseback, stagecoach, and boat, this was no quick feat. After the end of the Convention the news of the Constitution spread out in a wave, and thousands of copies were republished by local printers and distributed for debate. A flurry of newspaper articles, pamphlets, and public meetings followed, hotly debating whether the Constitution would be a good framework for a new national government.

Part of the debate and ratification process involved translation: non-negligible portions of the electorate spoke languages other than English. To reach them, the document was translated into Dutch in New York and German in Pennsylvania and Maryland.
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 14/05/2026
I was told several weeks ago that we needed to tone down heated political rhetoric because it was stoking violence I guess this does not apply to Vice-President James David Vance when an attendee at his rally expresses support for sending common criminals to a detention camp famous for torture?
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
don’t worry, for some reason shitlibs have decided if they couldnt win the primary they’ll at least win the Dumbest Possible Take contest and “consistently and materially supporting fascist policies is less fascist than a tattoo” in 2026 is an all-timer
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savannah loves… mifepristone! @savannahskeath.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
We have to internalize Lying To The Voters. If you say that you kiss a barrel of oil before you go to bed every night but then vote for expanded solar and wind capacity you‘re still a pro-climate politician. Words mean nothing compared to action.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Goodbye, get lost, and we'll see you soon.
Infowars.com -- Off Air
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026
someone make an ad of grandma working in a coal mine
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Comic panel of Donald Duck and a wide-eyed young Mickey Mouse. Donald's speech bubble: "Democrats should do a huge middle class tax cut to address affordability." Mickey's speech bubble: "Fool that you are, for you treat taxation as a burden rather than the means by which our burdens are eased. Behold a civilization rich in private wealth yet starved of public provision, where every man owns what his grandfathers could not imagine and yet trembles at the thought of how he will weather an illness or loss of livelihood. Will you fight for an affirmative vision of broad contribution and universal benefit? Or will you perish like a dog?"
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 20/04/2026
THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026 * CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt * Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2 * Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse * Age of Electricity "confirmed" * "Extraordinary" solar growth * Batteries up 40% * EVs up 20% 1/10
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
One hopes images like this, when paired with the knowledge that everything we burn ends up in that tiny slice of gasses, would help contextualize why we need to move away from energy sources we set on fire. One hopes. Climate communicators should make some hay of this.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Stocks soar on 2-week postponement of Armageddon.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 07/04/2026
just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Whenever someone says "there are no civilians in [country]," they are making an argument for genocide.
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davi @porraonofre.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I feel like now is a good time to share this again
A black and white pic of Iranian-French graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi holding a cigarette in her hands. Beside her pic is a text of her words:

"The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same..."
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 07/04/2026
"What can Democrats do?" When the South Korean president attempted to declare martial law, South Korean lawmakers literally fought through tanks and military forces and climbed fences to get into their Parliament building to stop him. So, you know, that.
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
This disproves a lot of right wing ideas about the causes of the decline in marriage rates
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The deafening silence of the crowd. The bricks because of the lousy sight lines. The vamping during replays. This is what championship basketball is all about.
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Fal Rising @falrising.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The US reportedly waited to strike the bridge in Iran a second time until rescue workers and others in the area gathered to help the wounded, which then killed at least eight people. Authorities in Iran are describing it as an act of terrorism.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
1/ Disruptions mean countries will rush to exit US-led oil order Worst case scenario for oil companies (best for rest of us) is that people permanently shift...what they call “demand destruction“ i.e short term pain but Long: Iran war will accelerate ongoing STRUCTURAL shift to solar+EVs+batteries
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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/03/2026
Crab Just Happy To Be In Bucket With All His Friends theonion.com/crab-just-happy-to-be-…
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Wounded Knee. Tulsa. My Lai. Abu Ghraib And now, Minab We need to talk about the horror when 180 little schoolgirls, boys and teachers were obliterated by U.S. Tomahawk missiles last week. And tell Congress: Not one more dime for these war crimes My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...
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AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul | Will Bunch
A debate on AI in warfare obscures the truth about an Iran school bombing. U.S. humans are to blame for this war crime.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I find it extremely difficult to believe that anyone experiencing what honestly looks like the apocalypse is going to regard it as a form of liberation or that anyone responsible for it actually cares about how Iranians regard it at all.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
i just bought some cardamom at the store. they didn’t ask to see my driver's license since i’m a father
text of official creative commons license: "Jon's cardamom joke © 2026 by Jon Bois is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International"
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Biggest US foreign policy gamble in 20 years. If you need more than an eight-minute video, can’t help ya.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
It’s weird how the White House can just blame a “staffer” for the racist post as if just any low level flunky can pretend to be the President of the United States at any random time.
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